Sunday, 13 June 2021

Adrian Barnes - "Nod"

Ok book about all people stopping to sleep.  Enjoyable as a quick read although I didn't care much for the style it was written in.  Just too smartly.



But it didn't.  I just endured.  And through enduring, I learned suffering's dirty little secret: the sufferer is always bigger than the pain.  You roll around on the floor like a baby.  You vomit up tears.  You shit your thoughts into a plastic bag and try to asphyxiate them.  I did all that  And still existence persisted.  From the ceaselessly beckoning no-time of my Dream to an empty classroom where time burned endlessly like a torture cell light bulb: through it all, pain remained something inside me – remained, therefore, something ultimately smaller than me.